World Cyber News

The British intelligence service has warned large power companies in the country of the possibility of Russian cyber attacks after the scandal with the poisoning of former Russian double spy Sergei Scrypal and his daughter Yulia, today reported British media citing a government source. “Communicate with all major infrastructure managers […]

A new cyber attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. Do you remember the powerful cyber attack that in 2012 hit computers at Saudi Aramco? A new cyber attack against a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure […]

News of the day is that the Mossack Fonseca law firm would shut down operations due to the reputational damage caused by the Panama Papers security breach. The Panama Papers is a huge trove of strictly confidential documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that was leaked online on April 3, 2016. […]

Polish law enforcement announced on Friday the arrest of Tomasz T., a well-known cyber-criminal believed to be the author of the Polski, Vortex, and Flotera ransomware strains. The arrest took place on Wednesday, March 14, in the Polish town of Opole, while Tomasz —a Polish national living in Belgium— was […]

Intrusions Focus on the Engineering and Maritime Sector Since early 2018, FireEye (including our FireEye as a Service (FaaS), Mandiant Consulting, and iSIGHT Intelligence teams) has been tracking an ongoing wave of intrusions targeting engineering and maritime entities, especially those connected to South China Sea issues. The campaign is linked […]

The Sofacy group, also known as APT28 and Fancy Bear, has carried out an attack on an unnamed European government agency using an updated variant of DealersChoice. Details of the attack, which have been published by Unit42 – part of Palo Alto Networks – describe the espionage group using doc.x […]

Spear-phishing emails, watering-hole-domains, and credential gathering are just some of the TTPs said to be used during a long running cyber campaign. A report from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security has accused Russia of undertaking a critical infrastructure cyber attack. Already under the spotlight due to connections with […]

A massive malware outbreak that attempted to infect over 400,000 users during a 12-hour period was caused by a backdoored Russian-based BitTorrent client named MediaGet. The outbreak happened last Tuesday, on March 6. Microsoft said that the Windows Defender team picked up and stopped a massive malware operation that came out of the […]

Comodo released its Global Malware Report 2017, which culminates a year of security analysis and research into threat patterns. Among its major findings: 2017 was a year of multiple geopolitical events that corresponded with major malware spikes in enterprise security. Researchers witnessed diverse malware attacks coinciding with geopolitical events, including: U.S. […]

China-Linked APT15 used new backdoors is an attack that is likely part of a wider operation aimed at contractors at various UK government departments and military organizations. Last week Ahmed Zaki, a senior malware researcher at NCC Group, presented at the  Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit (SAS), details of a malware-based attack against […]